Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] mail delivery via smtp broken

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:

> smtp servers (on all non-server machines) listen on the loopback
> interface (i.e. 127.0.0.1) only. However, fetchmail release 6.2.9-rc7,
> by default, attempts to connect to the IP address obtained from
> gethostname(), which typically points to the external interface. Thus,
> fetchmail is no longer able to deliver mails by default!
>
> The problem is that fetchmailhost is overloaded to contain the
> domainname to be used for HELO/EHLO and for rcpt address and also to
> contain the default SMTP host. Previously, it was localhost, but
> after changes in r4382, it became the actual hostname. For smtp
> servers listening on localhost only, mail delivery consequently fails.
>
> This patch should fix this broken behaviour.

Thanks, applied for upcoming -rc8.

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Matthias Andree